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English
Etymology
See flabbergast.
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Verb
flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)
- (Scotland) To brag or boast.
- (Scotland) Alternative form of flabbergast.
1878, James Brown Selkirk, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.
References
- “flabbergast, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.
- Jonathon Green, editor (2005), Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 511.